Re: [opensuse] Problems with URW Bookman Font
On 06/02/13 03:32, Joseph Loo wrote:
On 02/05/2013 03:30 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
On 05/02/13 05:22, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 05/02/13 14:08, Joseph Loo wrote:
I have been fighting for awhile to get the URW bookman font to appear in LibreOffice. This appear in the previous OpenSUSE 12.1 but not in 12.2. I found out the following: 1. URW fonts are from ghostscript 2. there is no link between /usr/share/fonts. You can get it to work by executing the following command in /usr/share/fonts: ln -s ../ghostscript/fonts URW Is this new behavior by design or an oversight?
I don't have such an entry in my 12.2.
I use Bookman Old Style (and have for many years) and this font shows up in LibreOffice (and in System Settings->Fonts) and is located in /usr/share/fonts/truetype.
BC
Like Joseph, my URW Bookman font (and some others) was 'hidden' in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts.
These fonts can be added to your available fonts through System Settings
TT Fonts (Install, manage and preview fonts). Click on 'Add', navigate to the ../ghostscript/fonts folder and select everything in the list. Click 'Open'. It will ask you to skip various files, either because they are already on the system, or because the file is not a font. You can also choose whether to make the fonts available system wide or just for you. [..]
Bob I have 3 systems now that do not include the URW Bookman font and libreoffice will not see the font. If you have e.g. bookman set as your default font it will show up but the font does not really will appear as an option in Libreoffice.
Looked for TT Fonts in system setting and it does not show up. I executed fonts-config as root and it seems to configure the other system.
Joseph, You didn't say which desktop environment you use, and I don't know if it matters. I use KDE4 (I've never used Gnome) and When I open System Settings from the Gecko, I find TT Font Management in the last group, labelled System Administration. You may have to scroll downwards to find it. By the way, please could you keep the discussion on the mailing list. Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.4.11-2.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.9.5 "release 3" Uptime: 06:00am up 10 days 7:30, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.64, 1.34 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 02/06/2013 12:43 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
On 06/02/13 03:32, Joseph Loo wrote:
On 02/05/2013 03:30 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
On 05/02/13 05:22, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 05/02/13 14:08, Joseph Loo wrote:
I have been fighting for awhile to get the URW bookman font to appear in LibreOffice. This appear in the previous OpenSUSE 12.1 but not in 12.2. I found out the following: 1. URW fonts are from ghostscript 2. there is no link between /usr/share/fonts. You can get it to work by executing the following command in /usr/share/fonts: ln -s ../ghostscript/fonts URW Is this new behavior by design or an oversight?
I don't have such an entry in my 12.2.
I use Bookman Old Style (and have for many years) and this font shows up in LibreOffice (and in System Settings->Fonts) and is located in /usr/share/fonts/truetype.
BC
Like Joseph, my URW Bookman font (and some others) was 'hidden' in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts.
These fonts can be added to your available fonts through System Settings
TT Fonts (Install, manage and preview fonts). Click on 'Add', navigate to the ../ghostscript/fonts folder and select everything in the list. Click 'Open'. It will ask you to skip various files, either because they are already on the system, or because the file is not a font. You can also choose whether to make the fonts available system wide or just for you. [..] Bob I have 3 systems now that do not include the URW Bookman font and libreoffice will not see the font. If you have e.g. bookman set as your default font it will show up but the font does not really will appear as an option in Libreoffice.
Looked for TT Fonts in system setting and it does not show up. I executed fonts-config as root and it seems to configure the other system.
Joseph,
You didn't say which desktop environment you use, and I don't know if it matters. I use KDE4 (I've never used Gnome) and When I open System Settings from the Gecko, I find TT Font Management in the last group, labelled System Administration. You may have to scroll downwards to find it.
By the way, please could you keep the discussion on the mailing list.
Bob
I am running gnome. Evidently the gnome version of yast or system setting does not have it. I will try to see if it shows up on another system that has gnome. -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 06/02/13 13:02, Joseph Loo wrote:
On 02/06/2013 12:43 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
On 06/02/13 03:32, Joseph Loo wrote:
On 02/05/2013 03:30 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
On 05/02/13 05:22, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 05/02/13 14:08, Joseph Loo wrote:
I have been fighting for awhile to get the URW bookman font to appear in LibreOffice. This appear in the previous OpenSUSE 12.1 but not in 12.2. I found out the following: 1. URW fonts are from ghostscript 2. there is no link between /usr/share/fonts. You can get it to work by executing the following command in /usr/share/fonts: ln -s ../ghostscript/fonts URW Is this new behavior by design or an oversight?
I don't have such an entry in my 12.2.
I use Bookman Old Style (and have for many years) and this font shows up in LibreOffice (and in System Settings->Fonts) and is located in /usr/share/fonts/truetype.
BC
Like Joseph, my URW Bookman font (and some others) was 'hidden' in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts.
These fonts can be added to your available fonts through System Settings
TT Fonts (Install, manage and preview fonts). Click on 'Add', navigate to the ../ghostscript/fonts folder and select everything in the list. Click 'Open'. It will ask you to skip various files, either because they are already on the system, or because the file is not a font. You can also choose whether to make the fonts available system wide or just for you. [..] Bob I have 3 systems now that do not include the URW Bookman font and libreoffice will not see the font. If you have e.g. bookman set as your default font it will show up but the font does not really will appear as an option in Libreoffice.
Looked for TT Fonts in system setting and it does not show up. I executed fonts-config as root and it seems to configure the other system.
Joseph,
You didn't say which desktop environment you use, and I don't know if it matters. I use KDE4 (I've never used Gnome) and When I open System Settings from the Gecko, I find TT Font Management in the last group, labelled System Administration. You may have to scroll downwards to find it.
By the way, please could you keep the discussion on the mailing list.
Bob
I am running gnome. Evidently the gnome version of yast or system setting does not have it. I will try to see if it shows up on another system that has gnome.
Ah. Another reason I chose KDE. ;-) Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.4.11-2.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.9.5 "release 3" Uptime: 06:00am up 10 days 7:30, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.64, 1.34 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:43:47 +0000 Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> wrote: - - - - - <trimmed> - - - - -
Ah. Another reason I chose KDE. ;-) <mini rant> While reminding others to keep the discussion 'on the list,' there is also the netiquette of trimming the text down to just the current part of the discussion. There's really no need to quote so many quotes of quotes of quotes, is there? </mini rant>
There is ultimately nothing that can be accomplished in KDE that can't be accomplished in GNOME (or via cli, for that matter.) You don't like GNOME? Don't use it ... that's fair. But disparaging a DE that you seem to not know how to maintain or operate is, well, just uninformed is the polite way of putting it. I run GNOME (2, not 3) because I find it better suits my work style. But I also use three of my favorite KDE applications. Not out of necessity, but out of preference. I've done the reverse, several times in the past, when exploring and evaluating (i.e. running for several months) the 'latest greatest' releases of KDE. Finally, returning entirely to the OP's problem, it's /amazing/ the number of promising 'hits' I just got when I 'Googled' the phrase "GNOME TT Font Management". I highly recommend trying it. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 06/02/13 14:21, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:43:47 +0000 Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> wrote:
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Ah. Another reason I chose KDE. ;-) <mini rant> While reminding others to keep the discussion 'on the list,' there is also the netiquette of trimming the text down to just the current part of the discussion. There's really no need to quote so many quotes of quotes of quotes, is there? </mini rant>
Point taken
There is ultimately nothing that can be accomplished in KDE that can't be accomplished in GNOME (or via cli, for that matter.) You don't like GNOME? Don't use it ... that's fair. But disparaging a DE that you seem to not know how to maintain or operate is, well, just uninformed is the polite way of putting it.
[..] Sigh! Is there no place for a little humour? Bob (I'm not going to continue this thread unless it's on-topic, as defined in the Subject) -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.4.11-2.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.9.5 "release 3" Uptime: 06:00am up 10 days 7:30, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.64, 1.34 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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